"GENTLE BUDDHIST REVERIES MAKE ME SO MAAAAAD!!!"

Well, apparently not everyone is hip to the forming cult of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Overheard immediately following a Saturday night IFC Center screening of Syndromes and a Century, a film made up of sweet tentative romances, lovely pop lullabye interludes, drifting clouds, swaying trees, a tranquil solar eclipse, and hushed, elegantly filmed long takes of modernist architecture:

Forty-something woman, to a quiet ticket-taker:"That was awful. I mean AWFUL! I've never seen anything so horrible. What was it? What was it? Have people been complaining?"

Quiet ticket-taker:"No. I think people probably go in expecting something a little weird."

Woman:"No, I need to talk to the manager. Horrible!"

DOWNSTAIRS, A FEW MOMENTS LATER, TO THE MANAGER:

Woman:"I want my money back. That was bad. Just plain bad. And I watch art films. I come here all the time, and I know art films. But that was the worst movie I've ever seen. Just bad filmmaking. Just bad! Has no one else complained?"